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NFL

Linebacker Fujita retires while on trip to Peru

From the mountaintops of Peru,
Scott Fujita has retired.

The Super Bowl-winning linebacker later enmeshed in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal signed
a one-day contract with the team and retired yesterday. The Saints provided the document and Fujita
signed it while on a trip with former teammate
Scott Gleason, who is fighting ALS.

“What better place to reach the end of the road than here at 10,000 feet above sea level, in the
Peruvian Andes overlooking Machu Picchu with my dear friend Steve Gleason?” Fujita said.

Fujita, 33, who played the past three seasons with the Cleveland Browns, was implicated and
suspended for one game by NFL commissioner
Roger Goodell for his role in Bountygate. Fujita later was essentially absolved of
blame by former commissioner
Paul Tagliabue.

• Baltimore Ravens linebacker
Rolando McClain is facing new charges in his hometown of Decatur, Ala.

Decatur police say the 23-year-old McClain is charged with disorderly conduct and resisting
arrest after a disturbance at a park on Sunday. He was freed from jail after posting a $1,000
bond.

It is the third time McClain has been arrested in Decatur since 2011.

• Safety
Kam Chancellor and the Seattle Seahawks agreed on a contract extension through the
2017 season.

Colleges

ACC makes move to deter members from leaving

The Atlantic Coast Conference presidents agreed for the league to retain media rights for a
school that leaves the conference.

The league said that each of the current and future schools signed the deal, which is effective
immediately.

The grant of rights means any school that leaves would have to leave its TV rights behind. Those
rights would stay with the ACC, meaning the departing school wouldn’t bring any added TV value to a
new league’s broadcast package. It essentially would lock schools in through the existing TV
deal.

The ACC is the fourth major conference to approve a grant of TV rights, joining the Big 12, Big
Ten and Pac-12.

• Auburn’s internal review into allegations by former players of academic fraud before the 2010
BCS championship game found no evidence of wrongdoing, athletic director
Jay Jacobs said.

Auburn worked with the NCAA in investigating the academic fraud, said
Jack Smith, the athletic department’s director of strategic communications.

Elsewhere

NASCAR changes format for road-course qualifying

NASCAR will use group qualifying for its two Sprint Cup Series road-course races this year.

The format has been used in lower series, but NASCAR had still used single-car qualifying at
Sonoma and at Watkins Glen.

The size of the groups was not announced but will be determined by final practice speeds. The
slowest cars will be placed in the first group, with the fastest cars in the final group.

Each group will be given a predetermined amount of track time to complete its qualifying laps.
The fastest lap timed for each car will be considered the driver’s qualifying time.

The change moves qualifying from Friday to Saturday at Sonoma. It already was scheduled for
Saturday at Watkins Glen.

• Godolphin trainer
Mahmood Al Zarooni is to attend a British Horse Racing Authority disciplinary
inquiry after prohibited substances were found in samples taken from 11 horses at his stables in
Newmarket, England.

Godolphin confirmed on its corporate website that Al Zarooni had admitted making a “catastrophic
error.”